Calendar
Meeting of the City of Oakland’s “Privacy and Data Retention Ad Hoc Advisory Committee” – open to the public.
When:
2nd & 4th Thursdays
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Where:
Council Chambers
Oakland City Hall
14th & Broadway
Read the announcement from the City of Oakland City Administrator’s Weekly Report (April 25, 2014):
This committee was created by City Council action during the discussions earlier in the year about the Port Domain Awareness Center (DAC). The goal of the DAC is to improve readiness to prevent, respond to and recover from major emergencies in the Oakland region and ensure better multi-agency coordination across the larger San Francisco Bay Area. The goal of the Privacy and Data Retention Policy is to ensure there are safeguards to protect against potential misuse of the data or violations of individuals’ privacy rights and civil liberties. The meeting is open to the public. For questions about the Ad Hoc Committee, please contact Joe DeVries, Assistant to the City
We need to show up to these meetings and pressure the City to adopt a privacy policy that makes privacy a priority, not only “security” or administrative convenience.
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA) has launched a new series of workshops focused on helping you:
> – understand how to access credit,
> – address credit reporting problems, and
> – address debt collection problems
Please come if you have questions for us, or documents you want us to review- you name it. We’re covering everything from student loan debt, auto loan questions, and medical debt to how to access the credit that you want and need.
Rising Tide will be hosting a teach-in/fundraiser on anti-extraction/direct action movements in North America.
The wealthy few are destroying our climate, our ecosystems and our
communities. They destroy Appalachia’s mountains for profit they make from
coal. They’ve poisoned the Gulf of Mexico and Indigenous and frontline
communities from Alberta to the Gulf Coast for profit they make from oil.
They are destroying communities from New York to American West for profit
they’ll make from natural gas.
In California and the Bay Area, the fight against extraction is becoming a
reality as industry is paving the way for more and more fracking while
“oil by rail” proposals are becoming more prevalent.
Now frontline communities and grassroots direct action allies from across
the continent have risen up against the fossil fuel industry. In the past
three years, from Washington D.C. to the streets of St. Louis and
Richmond,CA to the highways and byways of rural Idaho and Montana, the
fight against fossil fuels has intensified with massive amounts of direct
action and grassroots organizing.
Event to include:
– Panel on the North American anti-extraction movements; speakers TBA
– Amazing videos from recent direct actions
– Snacks, booze
Please join Rising Tide North America as we host a climate forum on the
growing movement against fossil fuel extraction in North America.
This event is a fundraiser for Radical Action for Mountain People’s
Survival [RAMPS]. A non-violent direct action campaign based in the
southern coal fields of West Virginia, dedicated to ending all forms of
strip mining in Appalachia.
This event is a Rising Tide production.
The KONO Community Benefit District invites you to an open meeting about Oakland First Fridays. The event will be hosted by KONO Board President Phil Porter, KONO Executive Director Shari Godinez and Oakland First Fridays Fundraiser/Coordinator Sarah Kidder.
Come find out more about the event-ask questions, bring ideas, share concerns. We’re also actively seeking volunteers to get involved with the workings of the event before, during and after the first Friday of each month on either a short or long-term basis. The meeting is open to anyone with an interest in the Oakland First Fridays.
Thursday there was music in front of the staples store in Berkeley (Shattuck & Durant) from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. A great new singer/guitarist named Josh Foster, as well as Redd Welsh on vocals and electronic organ. During that time there were consistently about a dozen people at the Boycott Staples table, not counting the many passers-by who stopped and showed their support.
TOMORROW FRIDAY there will be more music from 4:00 to 7:00 PM. Redd Welsh will be there, and the call has gone out to other musicians to join us. Come one, come all! Let’s get a big crowd out there! Dancing, anyone??
Boycott Staples. Stop the privatization of our Post Office.
Support the 24/7 occupation at Berkeley Staples.
Organized by First They Came for the Homeless.
No description.
On the 5th Anniversary of the Coup in HONDURAS Protest 5 years of Death, Fraud, Repression, Militarization, and Corruption Stop the Violence! Defend Human Rights!
and
VENEZUELA: Defend the Bolivarian Revolution! Stop US interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs! Recognize the Maduro government!
Five years after the coup in Honduras on June 28, 2009 that overthrew democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, the US government continues to support a repressive government and its neoliberal economic policy, recognizing highly contested 2013 presidential election results with less than 30% of the votes counted.
At the same time, the same US government has refused to recognize Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela. More than a year after the election took place, it does everything in its power to undermine and destabilize the Maduro government. Join us to say:
STOP THE VIOLENCE in Honduras and DEFEND THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION in Venezuela.
Called by Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition/BALASC and Hondurans in Resistance of Northern CA. Endorsed by ANSWER Coalition, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front/FMLN, FNRP/LIBRE NOR- CAL, Freedom Archives, Haiti Action Committee, International Action Center, Marcha Patriótica – Capítulo California/Colombia, Marin Task Force on the Americas, NICCA, Peacemakers, National Committee to Free the Cuba 5, SOAW – San Francisco, Workers World Party
In November last year Socialist Alternative broke through into national politics when its candidate Kshama Sawant won nearly 100,000 votes in a Seattle city council election that made her the first Socialist representative there in 100 years.
Sawant was elected by fighting for a $15/hr minimum wage. In January Socialist Alternative and Sawant launched 15 Now to pressure City Hall to pass legislation for $15 in Seattle. This month the mayor and city council unanimously passed a $15/hr minimum wage. This was a historic victory that continues to have national repercussions.
Come hear how socialists won $15 in Seattle and what we can do to challenge inequality and build a grassroots socialist movement here in Oakland and the Bay Area.
SPEAKERS:
Ty Moore 2013 Socialist Alternative candidate for Minneapolis City Councils
Dan Siegel Independent candidate for Oakland Mayor and $15 supporter
Erin Brightwell Founder of Campaign for Renters Rights and local Socialist Alternative organizer
We are always looking for new people to join us, and work on our many projects, which include saving the Berkeley Post Office, organizing for public banking in Oakland, getting funding from the city of Vallejo for nonprofit check cashing (and public bank study initiatives), working with the City of Richmond and other municipalities for eminent domain seizure of underwater mortgages from the banksters, and much more.
“Just as bosses are dependent on workers, so are lenders dependent on borrowers. If workers walk out, the enterprise stops. If borrowers refuse to pay their debts, the lenders could be in real trouble. Each side depends on the other. The millions of underwater mortgage holders, of student debtors and credit card holders, need the bank loans – but so do the banks need those borrowers, and they especially need them to cooperate by paying their monthly charges. Otherwise, the capital that the banks list on their books begins to drain away.” ~Francis Fox Piven
Check out our website, our Facebook,
and follow us on Twitter.
Check out the Berkeley Post Office Defenders website too.
UPDATED MEETING LOCATION! Pride has given us our location- we will be meeting at Spear St between Howard and Folsom. Please arrive by 11:00am for an expected go time of 11:30! Volunteers are always welcome to arrive earlier- we will have folks out as early as 9:30am.
Friends and comrades,
In the aftermath of Saturday night’s protest against KINK’s prison themed party, the police brutally attacked, detained, and charged many members of our community.
Please join us in continuing and advancing the struggle for liberation from the prision industrial complex by calling in to the SF DA’s office to demand that the charges against Rebecca, Prisca, and Sarai are dropped.
Please call in to either
(415) 553-1751
(415) 553-1754
basic ask:
“We demand that the DA’s office Drop the Charges against Rebecca Luisa Ruiz-Lichter, Prisca Carpenter, Sarai Robles-Mendez.”
Please feel free to add any additional comments and spread the word.
No Justice, No Peace! Keep the calls rolling in!!
EMERGENCY! PROTEST!
Let Our Children Go!
MONDAY, JUNE 30, 11am-1 pm
I.C.E.
Enforcement and Removal Operations Office
630 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA
that they are being incarcerated and secreted away: no reporters are allowed to interview them, or to take
photographs; the general public is being denied access to them and prevented from inspecting their conditions of
confinement. NO! These children need enjoyable, positive living environments, not mass incarceration and not
deportation!
WE SAY NO MORE! LET OUR CHILDREN GO!
The U.S. has 5% of the worldʼs population but 25% of the worldʼs prison population! More than 60% of those in U.S.
prisons are Black or Latina/o. More than 80,000 people in prison are held in solitary confinement under conditions
that fit the international definition of torture. The incarceration of women has increased by 800% over the last 30
years. Alongside this has risen a massive program of criminally prosecuting undocumented immigrants.
Deportations under the Obama administration have crossed the 2 million mark, resulting in many thousands of
children separated from their parents! We stand in solidarity with the courageous anti-deportation movement and the
demand, “Not 1 More Deportation!”
ICE, the agency responsible for immigration detention within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), now
detains approximately 34,000 immigrants every night and more than 400,000 individuals each year. Immigrants in
detention facilities around the United States are often subjected to punitive and long-term solitary confinement and
denied meaningful avenues of appeal. Since 2005, the immigration detention population has increased by nearly 85
percent. And now, U.S. military installations are incarcerating thousands of refugee children in prison camps!
This must stop—NOW! Not the next generation, not in ten years, not any time off in some promised future that never
seems to come. NOW!
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is calling for a massive Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration in October
of this year; a Month that can impact all of society; one that can open the eyes of millions of people to the need to
end this new Jim Crow. In October, 2014, our resistance to mass incarceration must reverberate across the country
and around the world. October, 2014, must be a month that makes clear that thousands and thousands are willing to
stand up and speak out today and to awaken and rally forth millions. It must be the beginning of the end of the mass
incarceration in the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
and Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) are currently warehousing hundreds and
thousands of children from Guatemala,
Honduras and El Salvador who have, in recent
months, streamed across the Texas-Mexico
border. Once detained, they are being held in
freezing holding cells, nicknamed “hieleras,” or
ice chests. Many thousands of children, some
unaccompanied, and mothers with toddlers are
now in U.S. detention. They lack nutritious
food, sanitary conditions, health care, and
beds. Thousands are being sent to military
bases for so-called “shelter” – but the fact is
they
Make October 2014, A Month Of Resistance To Mass Incarceration,
Police Terror, Repression And The Criminalization Of A Generation!
Sign
the
pledge
at
StopMassIncarceration.net
Local
Contact:
StopMassIncarcerationBayArea@gmail.com
Ph:
510-‐984-‐3648
Information, discussion & community!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues.
�
Leverage Points and Tipping Points: Deconstructing Political Influence
with Patrick McKercher
Patrick McKercher will begin with a brief historical overview of how the 1% and corporations gained their influence, offer an interactive tour of the map of the “Death Star,” then strategize with us how to use what it reveals for maximum leverage.
When scientists and the world were increasingly certain about global warming — including our driving it – why were Americans less and less concerned? As the fossil fuel industry was revealed as the leading climate denier, McKercher, using data visualization software to map the web of information and money flows, saw the infamous Powell Memo (the right-wing gameplan to defend corporations from the People’s will) at the heart of the industry’s gambit. At the end of a long chain, the Koch brothers (who brought much more money and created “the incubator” which recruits, trains and supports college students to be conservative activists, then generously funds the infrastructure to keep them employed for a lifetime) carried the torch.
However, the good news is that once we understand how the system works we can look for leverage points, where small pushes can create tipping points.
Dr. Patrick McKercher teaches for the Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz at the Environmental College. He participated in Occupy San Jose, and currently is involved with Move To Amend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dLAQr8p2wI&list=PL02F8ECC3CDB39BB1&index=2&feature=plpp_video
Q&A and Announcements will follow.
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.
And we’re fighting against both!
Come help us plan our next steps.
We’ve began the “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. The campaign has been adopted by Postal Unions, the San Francisco Labor Council and has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO, and has gone national!
All four Postal Unions have joined together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every community, with expansion to include postal banking, and to oppose subcontracting and privatization of services. The California Federation of Teachers passed a resolution in support of opposition to Staples. We are trying to get the Alameda Labor Council to pass a similar resolution.
And we need to be prepared if the Post Office announces a sale! The Advisory Commission on Historical Preservation came out with its report, recommending that sales of Historic Post offices be halted until the USPS conforms with historical preservation law. Here is our response. Also the Office of Inspector General’s report on the sale of Historic Post Offices came out recently – anything could happen now since Congress’ “request” that no historic Post Offices be sold until it had come out has been honored and no further Congressional request or mandate has come down. Come help us plan our response.
We have joined with other activists in Berkeley to put a ballot initiative on the ballot to rezone the Berkeley Post Office and other areas in the Historic District to prevent privatization, and also to insure a better Downtown Berkeley. We succeeded in getting the necessary signatures; it will be voted on in November, but Tom Bates and the City Council have nefarious plans to undermine our coalition.
Encouraging articles are still coming out about using Post Offices as banking facilities for the unbanked. The National Conference of Mayors just endorsed Postal Banking. We held a forum on postal and public banking on March 29th on the Post Office steps.
We are planning our next event, ‘Jam the Sale.’ Spread the workd and come help us out!
THINGS ARE HAPPENING!
The annual AK Press anti-state event is here again. Tons of sale books priced between $1 and $5…and discounts on everything else! Snacks, refreshments, and friendly anarchists.
Come for the books, stay for the scintillating conversation.
WHY: Because you can never have too many great (cheap) books.
BAY AREA ACTION ALERT PRESS CONFERENCE:
**************************
Tomorrow our community welcomes the arrival of the immigrant parents and children from Texas in CA here in the Bay Area
Originally they were set to be processed at the Border Patrol Station in Murrieta, until anti-immigrant groups with vitriolic messages blocked the buses and they were rerouted to Chula Vista. However many immigrant families are still expected to arrive in the Inland Empire in the next few days. Community groups and organizations throughout the Inland Empire are mobilizing to provide emergency resources and monitoring to ensure the safety of arriving families.
In contrast to the small group of anti-immigrant agitators in Murrieta, diverse community groups and residents throughout the Inland Empire and CA welcome the opportunity to show hospitality and lend a hand to the immigrant families the humanity and respect they deserve.
**************************
Please join us tomorrow in solidarity with these immigrant families and hear more about the human crisis at the border and in detention centers.
Find ways how you can get involved and join our immediate action to help these families.
Please join us for a tour of the Gill Tract Community Farm with acclaimed agro-ecology professor Miguel Altieri and Rene Zazueta. Learn about the farm, planting methods and patterns, and urban agro-ecology.
Come get our new “Public Bank of Oakland” shirts!!
Learn about debt and how it is screwing everyone… or just come and hang out!
Look for our table somewhere between 24th & 25th streets.
Follow us on twitter @strikdebtba
And join us at our next meeting!
Come show solidarity with the Palestinian people and demand an end to the collective punishment and occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
At least eleven Palestinians have died since Israel launched its massive crackdown, invasions and siege on June 12.
More than 1,000 homes have been raided, nearly 600 Palestinians have been detained, and Israel has conducted dozens of airstrikes on occupied Gaza.
Human rights organizations have described Israel’s actions as collective punishment, a violation of international law.